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:: Title ::

The Galway Tinker (Tramps and Hawkers)

:: Genre ::

ballad

:: Performers & Instruments ::

Henderson, Hamish [vocal]

:: Setting ::

4 Downshire Hill

:: Location ::

London (None), London (England)

:: Language ::

Scots

:: Culture ::

Scottish, Lowland Scots

:: Session ::

Hamish Henderson 4/51

:: Date ::

4/2/1951

:: Reference Information ::

T3273.0, Track 29 (00:01:42)

:: Original Format ::

Reel to Reel

:: Session Notes ::

1 - Alan Lomax: "Hamish says most of these songs have still some amount of oral currency - however all have a certain amount of literary influence - all have been pivotal in various forms in some of these books: Hogg's 'Jacobite Relics,' Scott's 'Minstrelsy of the Scots Border,' Povey's 'Reliques.' " [Source: Tape box]

:: Recording Notes ::

0 - This song of the roving life tells of some of the sights that the protagonist has seen.